LS,
A few months ago I configured our recently acquired Windows Server 2008 server.
I set up the IIS SMTP, everything was working great.
However, a few days back the IIS SMTP server just lost it's configuration (I used the default SMTP server, and changed it's settings).
How can this possibly happen?
Kind regards,
Matthias Vance
Best Answer
Edit: It occurred to me that I recently installed a number of Windows Updates just prior to the restart, here's the culprit:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowssecurity/thread/c87f4186-8842-4f50-b73c-d99e93a9f53c
http://codepolice.net/2010/04/19/ms10-024-and-kb976323-will-reset-your-iis-smtp-settings/
Bump: I just experienced the same problem. I run a number of web servers (Windows Server 2008 SP2 Web Edition) that all use IIS6's built in SMTP server to relay email. All the boxes rely on a common instance of SQL Server.
A few days ago, we restarted the SQL Server, so the sites started throwing errors - which obviously couldn't be logged to the database. As a fail safe, we have the sites send the error emails to an admin email address.
We then restarted each web server only to notice that no email is being delivered. My investigation has revealed that none of the SMTP configuration has been retained.
Do I really have to redo this for every server every time I restart? How can this configuration loss be prevented?